"dyke-rock" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1901, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, page 427:",
          "text": "Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1983, B. Simpson, Rock & Minerals, page 88:",
          "text": "If the dyke is of great thickness the centre may be coarsely crystalline as a deep-seated plutonic rock and this makes it difficult to distinguish a dyke rock in hand specimen.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Chris Pellant, Helen Pellant, Geological Structures - An Introductory Field Guide, page 14:",
          "text": "As a dyke is made of igneous rock, it is usually possible to date it by radiometric dating methods, which give an absolute age for the dyke rock.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away)."
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          "geology",
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        [
          "igneous rock",
          "igneous rock"
        ],
        [
          "fill",
          "fill"
        ],
        [
          "dyke",
          "dyke"
        ],
        [
          "fissure",
          "fissure#English"
        ],
        [
          "rising",
          "rise#English"
        ],
        [
          "stratum",
          "stratum#English"
        ],
        [
          "erode",
          "erode#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away)."
      ],
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        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
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  "word": "dyke-rock"
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          "ref": "1901, Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, page 427:",
          "text": "Appears to be a fine-grained dioritic dyke rock, but is too dirty and stained to be satisfactorily examined.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1983, B. Simpson, Rock & Minerals, page 88:",
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        },
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          "ref": "2017, Chris Pellant, Helen Pellant, Geological Structures - An Introductory Field Guide, page 14:",
          "text": "As a dyke is made of igneous rock, it is usually possible to date it by radiometric dating methods, which give an absolute age for the dyke rock.",
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        "A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away)."
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          "igneous rock"
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        ],
        [
          "dyke",
          "dyke"
        ],
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          "fissure",
          "fissure#English"
        ],
        [
          "rising",
          "rise#English"
        ],
        [
          "stratum",
          "stratum#English"
        ],
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          "erode",
          "erode#English"
        ]
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        "(geology) A type of igneous rock that fills a dyke (a rock filling a fissure that is now often rising above the older stratum that has eroded away)."
      ],
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        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
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